Oct 17, 2024 at 11:10 PM
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Originally Posted by ArtleyWilkins
I understand you I think. We find students lack the skill of giving productive feedback. We have to very deliberately teach them what this looks like. I don’t think that is particularly new on the high school level, but you’d hope by the college level students would have acquired that ability. I do think students are less adept at direct communication than they were prior to their now constant use of technology.
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It is getting worse - 5 or years ago it was not this hard. I don't know if maybe they were learning it earlier and so by the time they got to us - it was not such a foreign concept - but I now have to actually spend one or two class periods just on how to give/receive feedback and very specific but basic professionalism techniques that they used to come in with but now we have to spend time on. Feedback that isn't saying everything they do is completely wonderful is considered mean and unsupportive. And the number of students who want to tell me their mental health diagnosis has increased by about 90%. When we tell them that their diagnosis does not change the requirements or expectations in the course - we am being unsupportive and mean. The problem for us is - that being autistic or divergent or anxious or whatever will not matter to the court or jury during a trial or to jurisdictional deadlines that absolutely cannot be extended because of the way the law is written - no matter how sympathetic the story is - the deadline is absolute and if they mess it up - their law license is on the line and malpractice looms large.
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